Nevada County picayune., 1887-06-22
ALDEN'S MANIFOLD CYCLOPEOlA OF
 KNOWLEDGE AND LANGUAGE.

One of the most extraordinary literary en- tel prises of the age is the work which bears the above title.
 The specimen pages which the publisher sends free to any applicant, show the type which is used-a good clear faced Brevier; also the form-"Ideal" for convenience, easy for the eve, handy to hold. The vol tunes will average about 6i0 pages each. and there will probably be about thirty of them the ''manifold' number will not be inconvcnient; when you consult Il Cyclope- dia you are supposed to know what title you are looking for; the lettering on the back of each volume tells you at n glance what II. ties will be found within, so you do not look in the wrong one--and the volumes are so handy that you quickly turn to the sought for page. There will be several thousand illustrations
 no "mcre pictures" but everything of ln- pottnncc that will serve to illustrate.
 The MAN1Fofp CYCLoPEDIA k to be much more than Il "Cvcopcdia of Universal Knowedgc;' it will embody also a bictiona- 1 " of the English Language-including every word which has any claim to place IF the language. How often you have consulted Appleton's, or Chambers, or Johnson's Cy- l clopedia and failed to find the title you were l looking for--then consulted Webster's ma bridged and were successful; the word be 1 longcd to the Dictionary rather than to the 1 Cvclopedia. Or you have consulted Web ster and found little more than mere deilni- ton of the word-you must go the Cyclopf- dia for details of knowledge. Or, more probable than either of the foregoing suppo- l sitions. voa do not own either a tirst-cIass 1 Cyclopcdia or first class Dictionary, or on 1 lv one of the two, because of their prohibito- " cost. so you "consult your imagination and 'go hungry for lack of the few lines oi ] print that would satisfy youi In the MANI 1 FOLD CYCLoPEDIA you will find n survey of all knowledge which is illustrated by the English Lapguage--a its cost Is within your reach, only fifty cents volume foi l cloth binding, sixtv-five cents for half mo- rocco,
 In this age of the world, no general Cy- copepia or Dictionary can be in any proper sense "original'-eac new compilation, ii Il has merit, is based upon the knowledge found embodied in all it's predecessors "knowledge" as set forth in books can not be monopolzed by patent or copyright -only the form of embodiment can be thus covered. The latest discoveries tor imagln l ings) of the scientists, the latest finds (oi 1 frauds) of the arch;eologists, the latest theo' ries of the political eoonomists-all are sub ! feet to the .sieht drafts" of the latest Ency' clopedists. Alden's Manifold Cyclopcdia un dcrtakes to combine in the most convenient and concise (aud vet fulD and ecenomica form possible. the results of the scholarship of the world up to the time of its publica ton. Availng itself most of the labors 0 its predecessors who hnve accomplished thu bests results, the Manifold Cyclopedia, draw more largely from Chambers than from an, other of the family of Cyclopndas, and mor largely from Stormonth than from any oth CT ofthe family of Dictionaries-the Cham bers's is an acknowledged model far Cy clopedia; but it is adapted particularly tt England rather than to Amerlca Stormontl is the acknowledged peer to Webster, Wor cester, the Imperial, and Murray, as an au thority, but without peer in the combined qualities of conclsenesS, clearness, and accu racv of learning No authorities, however are blindly followed but effort is made tC bring all matters to the general accepted standard of the most eminent American rather tlan foreign, scholarship.
 Editorial talent second to none in Ameri ca, in experience and skill is engaged in thu conduct of the work; the publishers pas experience ill Cyclopedia making tnotabl, in the Library of Universal Knowledge, nov llnown-trebled in price-as the Information al Cyclopedia) Is good basis for the pledge he makes to his patrons that The Manltol( shall be inferior to no other Cyclopedia II any of the important qualities of popula guide to knowledge Specimen pages free or specimen volume may be ordered an' returned if not wanted. JoHN 5. ALDEN Publisher, 393 Pearl Street, New I ork.